Front Line of Freedom

The Underground Railroad, an often misunderstood antebellum institution, has been viewed as a simple combination of mainly white "e;conductors"e; and black "e;passengers."e; Keith P. Griffler takes a new, battlefield-level view of the war against American slavery as he reevaluates one of its front lines: the Ohio River, the longest commercial dividing line between slavery and freedom. In shifting ...